The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1887-10-28
TELEGRAPHIC.
MR.. DAVIS IN GEORGIA !
SPEECH BY MINISTER
JACKSON TO TEHE
VETERANS.
A SubaE'reasury Official
Dips His Hand into the
Public Purse.
The Pageant Yesterday at
RichmOnd-A Gloomy Day.
but u JubiIant Crowd.
SPLENDID DIsPLAT-zE0NTE
CAROLINA THERE WITH TWO
MILITARY COMPANIES.
EX President Davis Reception in
Georgia. Grand Speech by Ex-
Minister jackson,
by telegraph ito the Asheville Citizel

New YORK, Oct. pa Macon,
Georgia, special to the Herald says
Last nighta great torchlight demon
stration occurred in honor of Jeffer-
son Davis. General Henry Jackson,
Ex-Mirister to Mexico in his speech
to the veterans yesterday said {:
Confederate sveterans, there stands
upon the soil of Georgia the distin-
guished Miss;ssippian who within
the life of the present generation
was so-called traitor, leader of the
so-called lost cause. We Confeder-
ate veterans, relict of armies which
fought for that cause. are here to
meet him, to move before him in
pride and pomp of no Roman tri-
umph it is true, but bending our
necks to no Roman yoke of subiuga-
ton. By invation of the State of
Georgia speaking through her duly
empowered officials, all have come,
Behold majestic truth revealing
herself. State sovereignty is notldead.
Georgia is sovereign still and calls
upon her people to glory with her
to-day Her glory is in her history.
Her history is the memory of her
dead and this day is consecrated
to her Confederate dead. They
were guilty of 70 treason to her. TO
whom then, could they be traitors.
Where shall we seek their higher
sovereign? Shall we find him in
the Federal constitution Then
there was a sovereign smitten to
earth by traitor hands, tramped to
dust by t-aitor feet. hui hands and
feet were not theirs. Do we hold
that man who fought against them
VT re traitors? Not at all; they too,
were loyal to their sovereign. The
constitution was but a treaty be~
tween high contracting sovereign
parties without enc iota of sover-
eighty in itself; since with ilnpunity
through long years of painful agi-
tation was it broken by sovereign
parties of the North. They enacted
into crime mere attempt of FEEDER
al power to force its DEGREES within
their dominions and because after
decades of endurance as patent as
it was delusive, sovereign parties of
the South declined to accept their
revolutionary will in permanent
place of the constitutions. A com
pact between the sovereigns Of the
North, with members overwhelm
ing and material unboult1eI naje
aggressive war upon them to force
them to accept it. The world has
been told that the people of the
South made the war to perpetuate
African slavery. This is false. They
did not create the institution, nor do
they now wish to restore it. The
principle for which we fought was
the only principle of government
expressive enough to meet the re-
quirement of advancing civilization,
made of late by Gladstone's elo-
quence SO familiar to European
thought, was American born Red
with blood of Confederate heroes,
moist with tears of Confederate
widows and orphans, eastward
shall it continue to roll carrying
its blessed light of christian
organization all around the globe
and so surely as it moves it shall
bring the day of final triumph. In
that triumphant procession Abram
Lincoln shall not move as the right
full President, but Jefferson Davis,
of the so,called Lost Cause. We
as Confederates can echo from our
hearts the patriotic cry OF Webster
the great, Thanks be to God that
l, too am an American citizen" but
if the so>called new South" be !
base a surrender OF the old as
false, confession meanly false of
shame in our past, shame in our
sires, shame in our dead, which
meme but Tia silliest fool can hon
estly feel, then, with all of the
power given to US ny the God of
truth we cry, "Ayaunt, false South;
ayaunt, rotten trunk upon cursed
root, thv fruit must turn to ashes"
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